Word: accept
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Perez also fears that the spurt in oil prices could jeopardize his efforts to wean his country from the profligacy of the 1970s. "The psychological consequences of these extra revenues conspire against our people's willingness to accept an increase in the cost of living and other austerities that come with reform," he says. "With all these short-term profits, many will say, 'Why worry any longer...
...wrangling over deficit reduction this year, most of the participants from both parties assumed at first that the Department of Defense would have to accept major spending cuts. But then came the gulf conflict, and the hoped- for peace dividend began to fade. Budget summiteers made an implicit agreement not to wreak hardship on the military. In the end, the budget resolution set Pentagon spending for fiscal 1991 at $288.3 billion, a reduction of $19 billion from the President's request...
...autonomous republics in a month, as planned, Yeltsin will have stolen another march on Gorbachev. The Kremlin had hoped to have a Treaty of Union spelling out new relationships between the republics and the center ready by the end of the year. That looks increasingly unlikely. Unwilling to accept the degree of central power the Kremlin wants, the republics are negotiating with one another and forming loose groupings of their own. The Russians have already signed cooperation agreements with eight republics and plan to conclude negotiations with the remaining six by the end of the month. The five Central Asian...
...most segregated hours in America is 11 a.m. on Sunday. This was most revealing to me. If people who are motivated by the noble precepts of Christianity cannot bring themselves to accept the equality of people of another race by joining in worship with them, then how can they feel on the other days of the week...
...knows that the land must be shared somehow. We must play a reassuring role, embracing the Afrikaners in spite of the hideous past. If we do not do that, I think they would rather die fighting than compromise. Many of the younger generation of whites can come to accept the equality of black people and respect them...